Volume 2 of the history of the 14th Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS from its reformation in August 1944 until its release from captivity in 1949, with information on internment and ultimate fate including the secret enlistment of some veterans by MI6 in the 1950s for espionage work. A meticulously researched well-written, heavily illustrated ......
Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution?
Offers an analysis of the future of the world's ground forces: Where are future large-scale conflicts or other catastrophes most plausible? Which of these could be important enough to necessitate the option of a US military response? And which of these could in turn require significant numbers of American ground forces in their resolution?
Rob Morris spent three years interviewing veterans of the war in the Pacific, focusing on men who had undergone extreme combat, imprisonment, or sinking. Each chapter tells the reader, through the eyes of one to three survivors, what is was like to live through some of the greatest challenges of the Pacific War. From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima.
Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army, who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the 'end-game' of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler's Third Reich. A thrilling race with Stalin's Red Army ensued to reach the Baltic.
For nearly three years, August 1941 to March 1944, 47,000 Spanish soldiers served under German command on the Russian front, two of those years con-tinuously in the line in the siege of Leningrad. There were 22,000 casu-alties, of which 4,500 were killed in ac-tion or died of wounds, disease, or frost-bite.
Monty's Left Flank: from Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th
In August 1944, the Polar Bears acted as Monty's left flank. Following the battle for Normandy, they played a key role in the capture of Le Havre, campaigned vigorously in Belgium and helped to take Arnhem. In the final weeks of the war they played a humanitarian role by bringing much-needed food supplies to the starving population of Holland.
The German 3rd Panzer Division was established in 1935 under the command of Generalleutnant Ernst Fessmann. It later participated in the 1939 invasion of Poland, the 1940 invasion of France, and the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union.
